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Larry Smith on The Alternate Reality of Bahamian Squatter Settlements

4 August 2011

This is an issue that needs research, reflection, and discussion, not knee-jerking. Larry Smith starts the ball rolling at Bahama Pundit. … the deeper we delve into the so-called ‘Haitian problem’, the more we come face to face with ourselves. The squatter settlements that give rise to so much public angst are a clear example [...]

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A tiny ethnography of the earthquake

14 February 2010

I want you to know that, before the earthquake, things in Haiti were normal. Outside Haiti, people only hear the worst — tales that are cherry-picked, tales that are exaggerated, tales that are lies. I want you to understand that there was poverty and oppression and injustice in Port-au-Prince, but there was also banality. via [...]

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The Gaulin Wife: Making Connections

29 January 2010

This is not the crux of Helen’s post, but I chose it to inspire people to want to read the whole thing. It’s crucial reading. I have to remind myself to continue making connections, and to look for the triumphant in the stories of disaster, to look for the survivance in them, for the ways [...]

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Peter Hallward, “Securing Disaster in Haiti”

25 January 2010

Well worth reposting, reading, and savouring in days to come. Sobering commentary indeed. Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, it’s now clear that the initial phase of the U.S.-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course of the island’s [...]

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Geoffrey Philp – Two More Ways to Help With Haiti Relief

24 January 2010

And you know that I’ll be buying into the first of them for sure!!! Via Geoffrey Philp. I’ll be making a contribution to Cafe Cocano because it represents some of the things in which I believe: the ability of Caribbean peoples to overcome any situation and that we are responsible for creating the changes we [...]

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The Bahamas & Haitians – WeblogBahamas.com

20 January 2010

People who read this blog regularly know that Rick and I rarely agree on anything, and that when we do it’s a cause for commemoration. But there is not one thing in this article with which I take issue. Here’s just a taste: There has always been a love hate relationship between Bahamians and Haitians. [...]

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How we Bahamians are helping

18 January 2010

All right, enough responding to the inappropriate reactions of Bahamians to the Haitian earthquake. You know what the old people say: don’t mind the noise in the market, just mind the price of the fish. So what the fish costing these days? I thought I’d start a list of things that ordinary Bahamians are doing. [...]

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How not to lead a nation

16 January 2010

Before I post this, let me say two things. First, I have been informed by a reliable source (one of the editors) that the Tribune was not responsible for writing the article whose headline I slammed; it was an AP story that they re-ran as the lead. And second, I am trusting that by reposting [...]

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O O Christian Bahamas, where’s the Christ in us?

14 January 2010

I hardly know how to write about the Haitian earthquake. The situation is worse than any possible imagining. And what is worst for me is this: our Caribbean brethren in Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago are demonstrating far more compassion than we seem to be doing. Before I go on, let me say that [...]

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